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Inventory Planning Sometimes Seems Like a No-Win Proposition. Too much or not enough, each scenario has a serious impact on a business’ reputation and efficiency. Here are several qualities of a successful inventory planner.

If your fulfillment is unchanged in the past five years, chances are your DTC competitors are changing systems, increasing productivity and lowering costs. Here are 5 ways your competitors are planning to beat you this year.

What are you doing in your warehouse across freight management, incentive pay for employees, creating baselines for KPIs, developing great managers and other critical areas? Here are 10 things to consider as you look for ways to make your operations more efficient and less costly.

What does 2017 hold for ecommerce shipping? Given the speed of change, you should look further down the road. Here are 5 trends to watch in 2017 and beyond, including shipping costs, labor, fulfillment and more.

Without an RFP and demos it’s hard to go through the system selection process and know if what you’re looking at is materially better than the existing one. Here are five compelling reasons to go through an RFP process to vet systems and vendors and make sure you choose the right one for your business needs.

How do your merchant operations stack up across the distribution center, inventory management and the contact center? This exclusive benchmarking project and report from Multichannel Merchant and F. Curtis Barry & Co. will help you gauge your success across all 3 areas. If you’re a senior operations executive, be part of the benchmarking discussion and hear about the results at Operations Summit 2017, March 27-29 in Pittsburgh.

As you conduct strategic planning for fulfillment, what are the operational strategies you should consider to remain competitive and be efficient in the future? To consider this topic, we looked … Continue Reading →

There are 5 essential practices for the digital economy that can help merchants ensure a successful ecommerce distribution center operation. These operating principles in fulfillment, operations and labor management will help mitigate the risks created by expanding ecommerce and omnichannel business.

Kristin Bauer is responsible for working to drive efficiencies in Ulta Beauty’s current distribution centers but also the facility design, build and deployment of new distribution centers in its network. Read more about how she made great strides in operations in retail.

What are you doing in your DTC fulfillment operations to create career paths? And how can you do this while ensuring the highest level of professionalism and productivity. Here are some tips to help you reduce turnover and improve employee performance.